From now to September kids will qualify and start looking for success. So first of all Congrats for successfully completing your course. Now apologies for creating a world where jobs are not as automatic as the head of the placement committee in your college told you. We will all give you advice. Tons of it. […]
A few things that you should teach your kids: 1. Be responsible for your actions: When a kid runs and gets hurt, do not blame the bed, table or chair. Teach the kid that the table was stationary, it did not do anything, and the blame cannot be on the table. 2. Patience: the whole […]
Last week I was speaking to one of the bright kids I work with. For practical purposes let us call him John Galt. This kid (25 years old) has just started earning a nice salary. He spends well but can put away a nice amount on a regular basis, but is not doing so. I […]
I know parents of young boys and girls are going to kill me for this headline, but let me run a morbidity risk… When 2 young people get married they are starry eyed. Some of them even get married because of love! Well whether it is an arranged marriage or a ‘love’ marriage (which means […]
The most obvious reason is if you do not teach money to your kids, nobody else will. So YOU must. And for all of us Children and Money both are very important. In fact the cost of having a child is so high that many people are wondering whether to have a kid and if […]
Many young couples I know shudder to think of having a kid. One of the guys told me ‘I am still a kid…how can I have a kid‘. And he is 30 years of age and so is his wife. Do people who have a kid have any regrets of having a kid? Do people […]
This Children’s Day, I could have started saying “Pandit Nehru was born on 14 Nov. 1889 at Allahabad. He was fond of roses and children…hence this day is celebrated as Children’s day…!!” I did not do that simply because his family will over do it….even today and the bill will be paid by us… However, […]